Once I got some physical therapy bills sent to collections. It wasn’t because I failed to pay. The practice was really shitty about billing and record keeping and never billed me for a bunch of visits. They went under and sent their records over to collections.
The collectors called me and pretty much opened with “this place went out of business. We would settle for pretty much anything. How about 10% of what you owe?”
They get a percentage of everything they collect so you might think they’d go for the full amount. But I think the game is sometimes just “what can we get easily and quickly.”
totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Does that bork your credit?
andrewta@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes it does
totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That seems like an unfair and inescapable conundrum.
kn33@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Should’ve thought of that before you had kids while poor” -Republicans